Charges of intimidation to provoke fear in P.E.I. provincial court judges stayed
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — The Crown legal professional’s workplace has determined to remain costs in opposition to a P.E.I. man alleging intimidation of two provincial court docket judges with the intent to impress a state of concern and impede them of their duties, and uttering a risk to a kind of judges.
The stays of proceedings for the three costs involving the accused – Jeffrey William Clory – was filed with P.E.I. Supreme Courtroom on April 3.
Clory, 48, was arrested on March 16, 2022, and charged with the 2 intimidation allegations involving provincial court docket Chief Choose Jeff Lantz and Choose Nancy Orr and uttering a risk in opposition to Lantz.
Clory was an inmate on the Provincial Correctional Centre between Feb. 25 and March 10, 2022, and allegedly wrote on his cell wall the names of Lantz’s relations and Orr’s dwelling handle for different inmates to see. He additionally communicated Orr’s dwelling handle on to different inmates. The risk to Lantz concerned Clory additionally allegedly writing on his cell wall that the decide “would pay.”
On the time of the alleged offences, Clory was serving a jail sentence for slashing Orr’s tires on Feb. 18, 2021, whereas her car was parked on Kent Avenue in entrance of the Georgetown provincial courthouse. Clory was captured on video surveillance footage pulling as much as Orr’s car on a snowmobile and damaging the tires.
Lantz was the trial decide in that matter and convicted Clory of mischief for inflicting property injury below $5,000. On Feb. 25, 2022, Lantz sentenced Clory to twenty days in jail, 18 months of probation and $343.75 in restitution to interchange two tires.
After being arrested for the intimidation and risk costs, Clory had a present trigger listening to earlier than a justice of the peace on March 21, 2022, and was launched from custody on circumstances. He indicated at that court docket look that he was transferring to Alberta and was having the costs transferred to that province. Clory did transfer to Alberta for a number of months however returned to P.E.I. and had the issues referred to as in provincial court docket in Charlottetown in July 2022.
On Feb. 1, Clory elected to have the issues heard in P.E.I. Supreme Courtroom.
Despite the fact that the Supreme Courtroom costs had been stayed, court docket data present that Clory was additionally sentenced to 18 months of probation in Summerside on April 3 for a provincial court docket matter involving resisting arrest or obstructing a peace officer on Dec. 22. A separate cost of mischief involving property was stayed. The 18-month provincial court docket probation order consists of circumstances that Clory has no contact with Lantz and Orr or attend their locations of residence. Clory can be prohibited from commenting concerning the judges or their households on social media for that 18-month interval. When contacted by Saltwire on Could 23, Crown legal professional John Diamond declined to touch upon why the costs had been stayed.
Terrence McEachern is a justice reporter with SaltWire in Prince Edward Island. He will be reached by e mail at [email protected] and will be adopted on Twitter @terry_mcn.
